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Learning Through Making. Beer.

Laurent Stanevich — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:56:08 +0000

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Recipe: Malted and Hopped Baby Back Ribs

Laurent Stanevich — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:04:22 +0000

I've been looking for a way to bring out the essential flavors of beer in a dish, without just adding a lot of beer. These ribs were our first attempt to use the core ingredients that create a deep, brown body and sharp, floral aroma, and make something that really evokes the taste of a great beer.

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Foucault, Collaborative Filters and our new Social Discourse

Laurent Stanevich — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:59:03 +0000

Michel Foucault studied "history" as a collective _story_ — and suggests some useful ways to look at the profound effects technology is having on our culture.

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Piaget and our Intellectual Metabolism

Laurent Stanevich — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:07:11 +0000

When you click a "Like" button, you get to make a statement about yourself and your tastes...but what else is going on? Theories of cognitive development help to explain just how deeply that simple gesture can affect the way we think about the world.

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Websites don’t exist: Facebook, Buddhism and the Nature of Being

Laurent Stanevich — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:59:05 +0000

"Websites" don't exist, and they never did. Like it or not, Facebook is just pulling the wool from your eyes -- and in the process, they're exposing deep philosophical issues from Buddhism to 20th-century philosophy of science -- and help us predict the future. Wait...what?!

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